Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms [electronic resource] : Flexible Today, Secure Tomorrow? /
Hinrichs, K.editor.
Jessoula, M.editor.
Increasingly flexible labour markets and reforms of old-age pension systems are still ranking high on the political agenda of European countries. This volume investigates whether, and to what extent, the interplay between pension reforms and the spread of 'atypical' employment patterns and fragmented careers has a negative influence uponeconomic security in old age. The volume, therefore, analyzes the flexibility-security nexus by focusing on the post-retirement phase, thus extending the conventional narrow concept of 'flexicurity'. The book also questions whetherreforms of public and private pension schemes compensate or aggravate the risks of increasingly flexible labor markets and atypical employment careers after retirement? Around this overarching research question, the various contributions in the volume employ the same analytical framework in order to map, and then compare, the developments in seven European countries - Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and the UK which present different labour market arrangements and various degrees of flexibility, as well as diverse pension systems.
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Series Preface; Preface and Acknowledgements; Funding Acknowledgement; Notes on Contributors; 1 Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms: What Prospects for Security in Old Age?; Part I Traditional Single-Pillar Countries; 2 Germany: A Flexible Labour Market Plus Pension Reforms Means Poverty in Old Age; 3 A Risky Combination in Italy: 'Selective Flexibility' and Defined Contributions Pensions; 4 Poland: Are Flexible Labour Markets Ready for Individualized Pensions?
Part II Traditional Multi-Pillar Countries5 Lessons from the UK: When Multi-Pillar Pension Systems Meet Flexible Labour Markets; 6 Switzerland: Building a Multi-Pillar Pension System for a Flexible Labour Market; 7 The Danish Flexicurity Model and Old Age Protection; 8 The Netherlands: Reconciling Labour Market Flexicurity with Security in Old Age; Part III Conclusion; 9 Flexible Today, Secure Tomorrow?; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Increasingly flexible labour markets and reforms of old-age pension systems are still ranking high on the political agenda of European countries. This volume investigates whether, and to what extent, the interplay between pension reforms and the spread of 'atypical' employment patterns and fragmented careers has a negative influence uponeconomic security in old age. The volume, therefore, analyzes the flexibility-security nexus by focusing on the post-retirement phase, thus extending the conventional narrow concept of 'flexicurity'. The book also questions whetherreforms of public and private pension schemes compensate or aggravate the risks of increasingly flexible labor markets and atypical employment careers after retirement? Around this overarching research question, the various contributions in the volume employ the same analytical framework in order to map, and then compare, the developments in seven European countries - Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and the UK which present different labour market arrangements and various degrees of flexibility, as well as diverse pension systems.
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